Helmut Voigt

Helmut Voigt (1942-) was an Oberstleutnant in the Stasi of East Germany during the Cold War.

Biography
Helmut Voigt was born in Nazi Germany in 1942, and he worked as an engineer in East Germany before being recruited by the Stasi in East Berlin in 1978. In 1981, he was given command of the counter-terrorism department of the Stasi, and he was responsible for blocking shipments of explosives from the Syrian embassy to Carlos the Jackal's right-hand man Johannes Weinrich, doing so on the orders of Colonel Harry Dahl. However, he was implicated in the attack on the Maison de France cultural center on 25 August 1983, leading to his 1994 arrest in Greece; he spent four years in prison.